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'I promised her she would be safe’: Camp Mystic parents testify as Texas lawmakers promise safety reforms after deadly flood
"I promised her she would be safe and OK. I told her camp was the safest place she could be and camp was a place she could make new friends and learn new things," said her mother, Carrie Hanna. "She not only wasn't safe. She died." Hanna said she received very poor communication about what had happened to her daughter.
Camp Mystic parents' emotional pleas spur Senate Committee to pass safety reforms
In response, the committee unanimously passed Senate Bill 1, allocating $200 million to improve infrastructure and technology at Texas youth camps. Senator Paul Bettencourt told the families that the committee and he will try to take on as much of the pressure as they can from the families, according to our sister station CBS Austin.
Parents who lost their daughters from flood waters at Camp Mystic said their deaths were “100% preventable” and asked the ...
The measure is a response to the dozens of children who died at Camp Mystic and other youth camps in the Texas Hill Country ...
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